Screening for distress in patients with cancer: Methodologic considerations

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Abstract

Distress has been declared the 6th vital sign in Canadian cancer care. Accordingly, health care professionals in Canada are expected to screen for distress in patients with cancer, for which a toolkit has been developed. Identifying patients who may be in need of further resources has the potential to improve quality of care because those patients are more likely to have their existing distress identified and to be referred for appropriate follow-up services. The present article briefly reviews the background literature and the validation of the measures in the toolkit, and highlights future directions for methodologic validation of the toolkit for use according to the protocol. © 2014 Multimed Inc.

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Feldstain, A., Tomei, C., Bélanger, M., & Lebel, S. (2014). Screening for distress in patients with cancer: Methodologic considerations. Current Oncology, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.3747/co.21.1794

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